Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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